Fixing the Facts: National Security and Politics of Intelligence

by Joshua Rovner

Book Overview

What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-policy relations work best? How do intelligence-policy failures influence threat assessment, military strategy, and foreign policy? These questions are at the heart of recent national security controversies, including the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq. In both cases the relationship between intelligence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448298
• ISBN13: 9780801448294
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher